Wigan Album

This looks like footwear the great Myles Standish of pioneer America's fame might have worn during his command of the Plymouth Colony. Likely he came from around these parts it's said.

I don't think there's proof Myles Standish ever came to Standish - and his connection to the local Standish family was in the distant past.
I noted there was no mention of clogs in the advert - which shows that the target audience was not the local miners, who made up the mass of the population in 1911. At present I'm immersed in uncovering details of those commemorated on the various war memorials in Standish - there are more officers than I found when doing the same in Ince - but miners make up the largest occupation group among the fallen. Next come workers at the Bleachworks.

Very interesting picture. 10yrs ago I visited where the Mayflower landed. A reconstructured boat with characters of the time were on board. I happened to mention Myles Standish from 'Standish" and said I lived quite nearby! One of the characters was so 'overjoyed' to meet me and made such a fuss it really felt as if I were there at that time in history. The character's accents were impeccable as well for Americans mimicking a Portsmouth dialect!

This shop was in Pole Street. In the 1940s and 50s Joseph Baron's daughter Theresa, who was a pharmacist, had a chemist's shop round the corner from Pole Street on Preston Road just where the Wigan bus stopped.

...Looking on Google maps streetview I see that the shop is still a pharmacy.